This Gentoo experience has been quite interesting, currently running FluxBox, and this is an excellent Window Manager, =). It's been days day, and I have yet to see it crash, or not run well, it's just excellent in all departments, =). It get's a 10 of 10, score from me, =P. Just seeing how far this forums post can go, as in how many days, =P._________________Die Geschichte wiederholt sich!!!!!

Since this forum has been pretty slow this past couple years, this thread will stay in page 1 for quite some time, even if this is the only post._________________Brian
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So, if the pace of new threads/old threads brought back to the top continues, that'l give this thread about 2.5 months before it gets bumped to page 2 of the Gentoo Chat forum. That is if no other posts are made to this thread._________________Brian
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So, if the pace of new threads/old threads brought back to the top continues, that'l give this thread about 2.5 months before it gets bumped to page 2 of the Gentoo Chat forum. That is if no other posts are made to this thread.

Hmm, weird, almost impossible to keep working? Haven't had any serious issues with my install.. Although, I don't really do much, as it is.._________________Die Geschichte wiederholt sich!!!!!

Indeed. Everything here has pretty much *just worked* for me, despite being a relative newbie to Gentoo (though not Linux). This is also despite running ~amd64. I've had one or two issues, but when I have hit a problem it's usually been because of a dodgy download (mobile internet will do that to you).

What I really like is that the config files are *readable* and don't look like a dog's breakfast - everything seems commented and laid out cleanly, and if it isn't, it needed to be tweaked to individual setups anyway (my Gentoo fstab file is *much* cleaner looking than the one I have in my LMDE boot *shudders*). Also, although the community here seems small, everyone seems very helpful and patient._________________Unix programs expand to add mail, but the default mail app for a Linux DE will almost certainly be broken.

Indeed. Everything here has pretty much *just worked* for me, despite being a relative newbie to Gentoo (though not Linux). This is also despite running ~amd64. I've had one or two issues, but when I have hit a problem it's usually been because of a dodgy download (mobile internet will do that to you).

What I really like is that the config files are *readable* and don't look like a dog's breakfast - everything seems commented and laid out cleanly, and if it isn't, it needed to be tweaked to individual setups anyway (my Gentoo fstab file is *much* cleaner looking than the one I have in my LMDE boot *shudders*). Also, although the community here seems small, everyone seems very helpful and patient.

Yeah, I know what you mean, most of the people on Arch Linux Forums aren't very friendly at all, don't want to help any, never bother to help, I should say._________________Die Geschichte wiederholt sich!!!!!

around 12 months ago, i did something wrong [still not sure what], but emerge was very uncooperative and was full of conflicts/blocks/broken packages. I freaked out and ran over to ubuntu server. After about 2 days of that, it was ... just awful. I came back to gentoo, and have since had a truly perfect experience. I seriously have had no problems whatsoever and everything works perfect. I think the use of /etc/portage/package.use has played a big part in this. I seriously believe I have one of the best linux installs in the world right now. Also running fluxbox ... i've tried them all and fluxbox is definately the best (for me at least).

perfect everytime. not a single bug to speak of. i've honestly had to reboot twice since building this back in january, only for kernel upgrades. big up to the gentoo team, i wish everyone would learn how to use this instead of binary crap, which creates most of the bad perception about linux being full of bugs.

around 12 months ago, i did something wrong [still not sure what], but emerge was very uncooperative and was full of conflicts/blocks/broken packages. I freaked out and ran over to ubuntu server. After about 2 days of that, it was ... just awful. I came back to gentoo, and have since had a truly perfect experience. I seriously have had no problems whatsoever and everything works perfect. I think the use of /etc/portage/package.use has played a big part in this. I seriously believe I have one of the best linux installs in the world right now. Also running fluxbox ... i've tried them all and fluxbox is definately the best (for me at least).

Good list and with a couple of minor adjustments you can avoid serious breakages/or get back up and running quickly

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eselect news read new

after emerge -p when notified of unread news items
and your choice of elogv or elogviewer after emerge (paying particular attention to the ewarns), also better to run depclean with -p first just to check.

also don't forget about etc-update .. very important to go slow and pay attention during that. I'm trying to figure out how to centralize patching, but given that each group of machines is different, i'm stuck on the need to manually review the output of emerge -p and etc-update on each group.

also don't forget about etc-update .. very important to go slow and pay attention during that. I'm trying to figure out how to centralize patching, but given that each group of machines is different, i'm stuck on the need to manually review the output of emerge -p and etc-update on each group.

i trust depclean without -p.

Just redone Gentoo, didn't feel like fussing with it.. I put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" That was actually a bad idea, LOL..

I'm using Fluxbox, and the Keyboard Repeat stinks, anyway I can modify something to make it faster?_________________Die Geschichte wiederholt sich!!!!!

Indeed. Everything here has pretty much *just worked* for me, despite being a relative newbie to Gentoo (though not Linux). This is also despite running ~amd64. I've had one or two issues, but when I have hit a problem it's usually been because of a dodgy download (mobile internet will do that to you).

What I really like is that the config files are *readable* and don't look like a dog's breakfast - everything seems commented and laid out cleanly, and if it isn't, it needed to be tweaked to individual setups anyway (my Gentoo fstab file is *much* cleaner looking than the one I have in my LMDE boot *shudders*). Also, although the community here seems small, everyone seems very helpful and patient.

Yeah, I know what you mean, most of the people on Arch Linux Forums aren't very friendly at all, don't want to help any, never bother to help, I should say.

To be fair though, the Arch documentation is excellent, and a LOT of the answers *are* in there if you look. I have the Arch Wiki bookmarked for that reason.

That said, they *could* definitely be more helpful on the forums._________________Unix programs expand to add mail, but the default mail app for a Linux DE will almost certainly be broken.

Indeed. Everything here has pretty much *just worked* for me, despite being a relative newbie to Gentoo (though not Linux). This is also despite running ~amd64. I've had one or two issues, but when I have hit a problem it's usually been because of a dodgy download (mobile internet will do that to you).

What I really like is that the config files are *readable* and don't look like a dog's breakfast - everything seems commented and laid out cleanly, and if it isn't, it needed to be tweaked to individual setups anyway (my Gentoo fstab file is *much* cleaner looking than the one I have in my LMDE boot *shudders*). Also, although the community here seems small, everyone seems very helpful and patient.

Yeah, I know what you mean, most of the people on Arch Linux Forums aren't very friendly at all, don't want to help any, never bother to help, I should say.

To be fair though, the Arch documentation is excellent, and a LOT of the answers *are* in there if you look. I have the Arch Wiki bookmarked for that reason.

That said, they *could* definitely be more helpful on the forums.

Yeah, I know, I referenced Arch Wiki on Fluxbox, and came across something on there, I didn't see in Gentoo Wiki, there's also something available, if one thing isn't, =)._________________Die Geschichte wiederholt sich!!!!!

First off, as my first post I'd like to say hello to everyone out here in the gentoo world.

rottingdead wrote:

affirmedatheist wrote:

Indeed. Everything here has pretty much *just worked* for me, despite being a relative newbie to Gentoo (though not Linux). This is also despite running ~amd64. I've had one or two issues, but when I have hit a problem it's usually been because of a dodgy download (mobile internet will do that to you).

What I really like is that the config files are *readable* and don't look like a dog's breakfast - everything seems commented and laid out cleanly, and if it isn't, it needed to be tweaked to individual setups anyway (my Gentoo fstab file is *much* cleaner looking than the one I have in my LMDE boot *shudders*). Also, although the community here seems small, everyone seems very helpful and patient.

Yeah, I know what you mean, most of the people on Arch Linux Forums aren't very friendly at all, don't want to help any, never bother to help, I should say.

And this is the exact reason I ended up here at gentoo, i literally uninstalled arch because of the people on the forums...not friendly at all. Im glad it happened though because so far gentoo rules!